How to Use ill-equipped in a Sentence

ill-equipped

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  • The carpets were tatty; the meeting rooms were ill-equipped.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And no wildflowers are more ill-equipped than poppies.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Cerel said that with limited funding, schools are ill-equipped to do more.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Yet much of today’s infrastructure is ill-equipped for the task.
    — Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The obsession comes from being ill-equipped, not from knowledge.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • Gone are the days when players left academies ill-equipped for a world outside of the game, bruised and bereft.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The private sector, too, is ill-equipped to handle the problem on its own, Gates argued.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The local firefighters are largely ill-equipped and unsalaried.
    — Kristin Deasy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • When airlines are ill-equipped to quickly react to disruptions, that slows everything down even more.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
  • India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a dearth of staff and equipment.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Our children become adults, who enter the workforce ill-equipped to budget, manage debt, invest and save.
    — Petros Koumantaros, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The chief is ill-equipped and underequipped to be the chief of a police department with this history and a diverse city.
    — Shaquille Brewster, NBC news, 26 May 2025
  • The troops deployed there were unprepared and ill-equipped, sent to pursue objectives that could be bafflingly opaque.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Hospitals in the south, already overcrowded and stretched for resources, are ill-equipped to receive any more people.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • These groups have been ill-equipped and poorly trained throughout the war, and have struggled at times to maintain defensive positions.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
  • Plagued by illnesses and ill-equipped for frontier life, the group soon gave up and retreated to New Orleans.
    — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Mihdhar and Hazmi, who were both in their mid-20s, were notably ill-equipped to make their way in the West.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And sometimes, you’re left with conversations that your film vocabulary is ill-equipped to cover.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Adult brains are ill-equipped for the swap, meaning Prodigy must rely on children with terminal diseases to be their guinea pigs.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • When the program finally had vaccines, the shots presented challenges that weak health systems were ill-equipped to manage.
    — Rebecca Robbins, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Many have been sent to prisons outside our country, internment centers or camps, ill-equipped to house these detainees, some of whom may never be heard from again.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2025
  • State agencies, however, were ill-equipped to accommodate the order.
    — Yue Stella Yu feb. 22, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But the cohort is simply so big and our nation’s retirement system remains woefully ill-equipped to deal with their exit.
    — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The encampment sprawled across a grassy plateau, where Washington arrived at the head of a contingent of weary and ill-equipped soldiers.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Hardening the grid The aging grid is often ill-equipped to handle the load even where enough power can be generated.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 28 July 2024
  • Modern workforce trends illustrate how ill-equipped the current system is to capture the rapid changes in the modern labor market.
    — Jeff Gapusan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Experts say federal regulators, law enforcement, and the courts are ill-equipped to rein in the burgeoning scam.
    — Pranshu Verma, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Congress is ill-equipped to proactively identify and treat every at-risk young person who might otherwise turn to violence.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And without keeping up with the virus's journey in wild animals, experts worry, humans will be caught unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle bird flu.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The single’s protagonist is ill-equipped to say no to the joint’s alluring features, and his plan to get a good weeknight’s sleep is derailed by the pursuit of a good time.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2024

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